Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 7, 2014. The Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint made public late yesterday seeking the forfeiture of $106,488.31 in allegedly laundered funds traceable to a $2 million bribe payment made by a Canadian energy company to Chad’s former Ambassador to the United States and Canada[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 7, 2014. A grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia returned an indictment yesterday charging a Jamaican citizen who was residing in Virginia in connection with the operation of a fraudulent lottery scheme, the Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 6, 2014. John Greene, 70, a former captain at the Gallup-McKinley Adult Detention Center (GMADC), entered a guilty plea to charges related to the sexual assaults of female inmates in his custody.  Greene pleaded guilty to three counts of violating each of the victim’s right to bodily integrity[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 6, 2014. In a settlement with the United States, three subsidiaries of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS), the world’s largest fertilizer producer, will take steps to reduce harmful air emissions at eight U.S. production plants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice announced today.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 6, 2014. Biotronik Inc. of Lake Oswego, Oregon, has agreed to pay the United States $4.9 million to resolve allegations made under the False Claims Act that the company made various improper payments to induce physicians to use devices that it manufactured and sold, the Justice Department announced[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 4, 2014. Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin made his first appearance today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on federal terrorism offenses arising from his alleged participation in an attack on U.S. troops and Afghan Border Police in the Khost Province of Afghanistan in November[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 3, 2014. A California-based medical diagnostics and life sciences manufacturing and sales company, Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Bio-Rad), has agreed to pay a $14.35 million penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by falsifying its books and records and failing to implement adequate[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 3, 2014. A leading member of an online piracy group pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to distribute more than one million pirated copies of copyrighted Android mobile device applications, or “apps,” with a total retail value of more than $1.7 million. Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 3, 2014. Lamont Deshawn Byrd was sentenced today in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina, to serve life in prison for committing first degree murder of an Officer of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker for the Eastern District of North Carolina.  Byrd, 22, pleaded[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 3, 2014. The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today seeking to block National CineMedia Inc.’s (NCM) $375 million acquisition of Screenvision LLC.  The department said that the acquisition would combine the only two significant cinema advertising networks in the United States, eliminating competition that has[Read More…]